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 January
2008.- La isla de los amores infinitos in
European and Asian markets.
The Italian edition of La isla de los amores infinitos
have been published by the prestigious house Mondadori. Following the launching
of L'isola degli amori
infiniti, Il Corriere della Sera published a six-page
interview of the author by the New York-based journalist Alessandra
Farkas.
Wereldbibliotheek,
the important Dutch publisher whose catalogue includes classics like
Goethe, Voltaire and Dante, and more contemporary authors like Susana
Tamaro and Isabel
Allende, also presented the Dutch edition for the Netherlands.
Afterwards, in November, the Polish edition was launched by Muza, the most important
house in that country, whose catalogue includes names like
Hemingway,
García Márquez, Arturo Pérez-Reverte,
Mijaíl Bulgakov, Vladimir
Nabokov, Antoine
de Saint-Exupery, Mario Vargas Llosa and others.
This week, the Eurasian
Publishing Group and Bazar are presenting the Chinese and Swedish editions,
respectively. With the Chinese edition, Chaviano becomes the first Cuban novelist to be published in Taiwán.
June
2007.- Minotauro releases Historias
de hadas para adultos (Fairy Tales for Adults), by Daína
Chaviano.
The Spanish
publisher Minotauro has just launched Historias
de hadas para adultos, by Cuban author Daína
Chaviano.
Three novellas
in one volume ("The Farm", "The Lady of the Deer" and "A Fairy at the
Threshold
of Earth") where the psychological, supernatural and magical elements,
added to the complexity of human relations, contains an implicit thesis
of a philosophical bent. Their distinct narrative styles —the first one
is fantasy, the second combines SF and fantasy, and the third one is
pure
SF— are a sample of the writer’s expertise when it comes to mixing the
various genres, doling out the ingredients at will. The last novella
exploits
the fusion between horror and SF, spiced it up with elements taken from
fairy tales with such adept use of the structure that it’s impossible
to
put the story down once you’ve started reading it.
Historias
de hadas para adultos was the third book by this author, first
published
in Cuba when Chaviano still lived there. It became an instant
best-seller,
but was never available outside the island.
Biblical
stories, classical myths, Arthurian legends and fairy tales collide in
this volume, where it is possible to recognize the unique style of the
author who found international recognition in later works as El
hombre,
la hembra y el hambre (Azorín Award for Best Novel 1998) and
La
isla de los amores infinitos (Grijalbo 2006), whose publishing
rights
have been sold to 20 languages.
March
2007.- Daína Chaviano among Gold
Medal
Winners at the 1st Annual Florida Books Awards.
Cuban author
Daína Chaviano will be awarded with a Gold Medal in the category
of Spanish Language Book, during the 1st Annual Florida Book Awards,
for
her acclaimed novel La isla de los amores infinitos.
In its very first
set of competitions, Florida Book Awards announced winners for seven
categories
of books published in 2006.
Chaviano's prize
novel, La isla de los amores infinitos (Grijalbo-Random House
Mondadori),
is currently been translated to some 20 languages, and will be
published
in English by Riverhead, a division of Penguin Group, in 2008. The
author
was born in Havana (Cuba) and has been living in Miami, Florida, for 15
years.
The Florida
Book Awards is an annual program established in 2006 that recognizes,
honors,
and celebrates the best Florida literature published the previous
year.
It is coordinated by The Florida State University Program in American
and
Florida Studies, and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book,
State
Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Historical Society, Florida
Humanities
Council, Florida Literary Arts Coalition, Florida Library Association,
“Just Read, Florida!,” Governor’s Family Literacy Initiative, Florida
Association
for Media in Education, Florida Center for the Literary Arts, and
Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.
The Gold Medal
winners in 2006 were:
1. GENERAL FICTION: Tony D’Souza,
Whiteman
(Harcourt)
2. FLORIDA NONFICTION: Michael Grunwald,
The
Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise(Simon
& Schuster)
3. SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK: Daína
Chaviano, La isla de los amores infinitos (Grijalbo-Random
House
Mondadori)
4. POETRY: James Kimbrell, My
Psychic (Sarabande)
5. YOUNG ADULT: Adrian Fogelin,
The
Real Question (Peachtree)
6. CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: N.E. Bode,
The
Somebodies (Harper Collins)
7. POPULAR FICTION: James O. Born,
Escape
Clause (Putnam).
All awardees
will be recognized at the Annual Banquet of the FSU Friends of the
Library
on March 23, in Tallahassee.
The seven Gold
Medal Winners will also be recognized on March 28 at the Historical and
Cultural Awards Ceremony sponsored by the State of Florida’s Division
of
Cultural Affairs at the R.A. Gray Building in Tallahassee.
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